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Land surface hydrology, meteorology, and climate: observations and modeling

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Land surface hydrology integrates various physical, chemical and biological processes that occur above, on, and below the surface of the Earth. As a result, it is critical to accurately account for land surface processes within predictive models of hydrology, meteorology, and climate.

One of our main difficulties, however, concerns the broad range of spatial and temporal scales that characterize land surface hydrological processes. For example, we determine infiltration by pore scale physics, while soil hydraulic conductivity remains a field scale property. Photosynthesis, respiration, and transpiration occur at the leaf scale. Runoff is a catchment scale process, and the variability of groundwater storage is a regional scale issue. Turbulence in land-atmosphere exchanges of heat, moisture, and momentum occur on the order of seconds to minutes, while variations in land surface and air temperatures occur much more gradually: on the order of hours. The persistence of floods and droughts is seasonal to annual, and so is the effect of El Nino on regional hydrology. Long-term climate effects occur much more slowly, on the order of years to decades.

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Judul Seri

Water Science and Application 3

No. Panggil

E31

Penerbit

Washington, D.C. : American Geophysical Union., 2013

Deskripsi Fisik

246 hlm. : il.

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781118665589

Klasifikasi

NONE

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

Meteorologi
Iklim
Air

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

Editor, Venkataraman Lakshmi, John Albertson, John Schaake

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